By pushing the Wednesday and Thursday workouts to the afternoon I give myself a little bit more recovery time. That way my body can get used to the fourth tough workout and then enjoy my off day on Friday!

For this week I chose to run Wednesday afternoon on the treadmill. I used the treadmill to control my pace and force myself to run slower. I ran 2.5 miles at 9:00 pace and totally zoned out. I had planned to just run 2.25 miles but then I was watching TV and suddenly I was almost at 2.5 miles.

Thursday afternoon I headed to the gym again for another tempo workout.

It was hard to judge what my tempo pace for 1000m repeats should be on the treadmill. I feel like my paces are so much slower on the treadmill than on the track outside. I ended up running all the repeat at 7:19 pace and then the strides at the same pace. Strides are tough to do the treadmill.

Workout done - totally sweat in the eyes kind of workout! I had a hard time taking this photo in the bathroom since it was 5:30pm and the gym was PACKED! Thankfully no one walked in on me taking pictures of myself in the mirror!

How many days do you run in a row? How do you make sure you run your recovery runs slow?

Happy "practically" Friday!!

Posted by
J

17 comments:

Great idea to move Wednesday and Thursday to the afternoon. I'm planning my quality runs on Tue, Thu and SAT and have easy runs on WED and Sun. I never did more than 3 consecutive days. Good luck with your plan!!

Nice plan! Thats good thinking to do an afternoon run on Thursday, the extra recovery time will help. I have a hard time doing an afternoon workout and then a morning workout the next day. Good luck with your plan! I only take one day off a week, usually Friday. :)

I do three/four runs a week, with cross-training, but mostly not in a row. I like to stick the cross/rest days between the run days. Being "older" I want to avoid injury (though I'm currently on the injured list :)).

Sometimes I run 4 days in a row, but any more than that is just too much. That being said, whatever feels right to your body is best. I know when I take a day off here and there, the runs the day after are much stronger.

I run 6 six days a week Tue - Sun but I've been running for many, many years. The key is just to build up slowly and have some easy days. I run according to how my body feels and never look at my watch or pace.

Your idea for easing in to 4 days is good! I really try to run 1 day and take a rest day, but some weeks I run 2 or 3 days in a row. I think that will happen this week. I am just so scared of getting injured!

i've been doing the four days for awhile and really like having friday off before my long run, but it doesn't work for everyone. hope you like it and if not, thank goodness there are about a bajillion running plans

I'm always afraid of running lots of days in a row as well... specially because I do lots of kick-ass weight training and, when I do lower body, I can barely walk for the next 2 days, you can imagine how painful it is to run lol. Well, but I don't know, I think it depends on the person, the level, stuff like that... most of the runner's blogs I read around just sound like waaaaay too much exercise for me, but they seem to do just fine, so who knows lol